City Studies
Faculty List
J. Hannigan, B.A., M.A. (Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Ohio State),
Professor
J. Miron, B.A. (Queen's), M.A. (Penn.), M.Sc. (pl.), Ph.D. (Toronto),
Professor
M.L. Kohn, B.A. (Williams College), M.A., Ph.D. (Cornell University),
Associate Professor
A. Sorensen, B.F.A. (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), M.Sc., Ph.D. (London),
Associate Professor
S.C. Bunce, B.A. (Guelph), M.E.S. Pl. (York), Ph.D. (York),
Assistant Professor
D. Silver, B.A. (Berkeley), M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago),
Assistant Professor
A. Allahwala, B.A., M.A. (Free University, Berlin), Ph.D. (ABD),
Lecturer
Undergraduate Counsellor: J. Roopnarinesingh
Email: social-sciences-counsellor@utsc.utoronto.ca
A pre-professional Major Program for students interested in career paths that may be city-related: e.g., architecture, city planning, real estate brokerage, real estate development, housing, law, property real estate appraisal, property management, social work, social and city public policy, city environmental management, and city transportation policy. The Program equips students with the background knowledge and skills needed to think broadly about the relationships between their intended professions and the growth, sustainability, and liveability of cities. The Major Program in City Studies is multidisciplinary: it is designed to give students the opportunity to see how they might apply ideas about cities from the social sciences and kindred disciplines in their field of professional interest.
Guidelines for 1st year course selection
Students intending to complete a program in City Studies should take at least 1.0 full credit from the courses listed in Requirement 1 of the Major Program in City Studies within their first 4.0 credits.
Note: It is Department policy that students without the prerequisite will be removed from the course. Students should carefully check the prerequisites required for particular B- and C-level courses.
Note: That some upper-level courses (e.g., SOC and ECM) are part of limited enrolment programs, with first preference in these courses going to students enrolled in those programs.
MAJOR PROGRAM IN CITY STUDIES (ARTS)
Program Requirements
This program requires a total of 7.0 full credits.
- Introduction to Social Science Thought (1.0 full credit from among the following):
ANTA01H3 Introduction to Anthropology: Becoming Human
ANTA02H3 Introduction to Anthropology: Culture, Society and Language
HLTA01H3 Plagues and Peoples
[POLA51H3 Critical Issues of Canadian Democracy or POLB50H3 Canada's Political Institutions]
One other A-level half-course in Political Science
SOCA01H3 Introduction to Sociology I
SOCA02H3 Introduction to Sociology II
GGRA02H3 The Geography of Global Processes
GGRA03H3 Cities and Environments
[ECMA01H3 Introduction to Microeconomics or ECMA04H3 Introduction to Microeconomics: A Mathematical Approach]
[ECMA05H3 Introduction to Macroeconomics or ECMA06H3 Introduction to Macroeconomics: A Mathematical Approach]
- Core courses (1.0 full credit)
CITB01H3 Canadian Cities and Planning
CITB02H3 Foundations of City Studies
- City Studies Fundamentals of (at least 2.0 full credits from among the following):
DTSB01H3 Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies I
DTSB02H3 Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies II
[EESA05H3 Environmental Hazards or EESA06H3 Introduction to Planet Earth]
GGRB05H3 Urban Geography
GGRB13H3 Social Geography
GGRB28H3 Geographies of Disease
HLTB04H3 Health and the Urban Environment
SOCB44H3 Sociology of Cities and Urban Life
(SOCB45H3) Urban Sociology: Micro-Analysis
WSTB12H3 Women: Issues of Violence and Safety
- Methods (at least 1 full credit from among the following):
[SOCB06H3 Social Statistics or STAB22H3 Statistics I]
[GGRA30H3 GIS and Empirical Reasoning or
(EESA08H3) GIS for the Beginning Student or
EESC03H3 Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing]
SOCD23H3 Practicum in Qualitative Research Methods
SOCD31H3 Practicum in Quantitative Research Methods
- Applications (at least 2.0 full credits from among the following):
(ANTC39H3) Foundation and Theoretical Issues in Anthropological Demography
ANTC40H3 Methods and Analysis in Anthropological Demography
CITC01H3 Urban Communities and Neighbourhoods Case Study: East Scarborough
CITC02H3 Learning In Community Service
CITC03H3 Real Estate and the City
CITC04H3 Municipal and Planning Law in Ontario
CITC07H3 Urban Social Policy
CITC08H3 Cities and Community Development
CITC10H3 Selected Issues in City Studies
CITC18H3 UrbanTransportation Policy Analysis
CITD01H3 City Issues and Strategies
EESC21H3 Urban Environmental Problems of the Greater Toronto Area
ENGD89H3 Topics in the Victorian Period
GGRC02H3 Population Geography
GGRC04H3 Urban Residential Geography
GGRC13H3 Urban Political Geography
GGRC27H3 Location and Spatial Development
GGRC33H3 The Toronto Region
GGRD09H3 Feminist Geographies
HISC32H3 The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1933
HISC36H3 People in Motion: Immigrants and Migrants in U.S. History
(HISD38H3) Topics in American Urban History: New York City
POLC53H3 Canadian Environmental Politics
POLC66H3 Public Policy Making
POLC67H3 Public Policy in Canada
SOCC03H3 Collective Behaviour
SOCC04H3 Social Movements
SOCC26H3 Sociology of Urban Growth
WSTC14H3 Women, Community, and Policy Change
WSTC20H3 Women and Environments
Students are reminded that many of the courses above have prerequisites and that it is the responsibility of the student to ensure that they satisfy these requirements.
Note that some upper-level courses (e.g., SOC) are part of limited enrolment programs, with first preference in these courses going to students enrolled in those programs.
MAJOR (CO-OPERATIVE) PROGRAM IN CITY STUDIES (ARTS)
Co-op Contact: askcoop@utsc.utoronto.ca
Graduates will receive an Honours B.A. degree wherein they must combine the Major (Co-operative) Program in City Studies with one of the following:
- Major Program in Anthropology
- Major Program in Economics for Management
- Major Program in Environmental Science
- Major Program in History
- Major Program in Human Geography
- Major Program in Political Science
- Major Program in Sociology
- Major Program in Studio
- Major Program in Women's and Gender Studies
The Program is intended to complement the chosen academic discipline and to give students the opportunity to see how they might apply ideas from that discipline in their field of professional interest.
For information on admissions, fees, work terms and standing in the Program, please see the
Co-operative Programs section of this
Calendar.
Program Admission
Prospective Applicants: For direct admission from secondary school or for students, who wish to transfer to UTSC from another U of T faculty or from another post-secondary institution, see the
Co-operative Programs section in this
Calendar.
Current U of T Scarborough students: Application procedures can be found at the Registrar's Office website:
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/subjectpost. The minimum qualifications for entry are 4.0 credits including 1.0 from the courses listed in Requirement 1 of the Major Program in City Studies plus a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5.
Program Requirements
The Major (Co-operative) Program in City Studies combines academic studies in various disciplines with work terms in private enterprise, the public sector, or non-governmental organizations. It includes all of the requirements of the Major Program listed above, viz., 7 full credits as specified. In addition, students must successfully complete the non-credit Arts & Science Co-op Work Term Preparation course and two work terms.
Work Terms
Students must satisfactorily complete two work terms, each of four-months duration. To be eligible for the first work term, students must have completed at least 10 full credits, including 5 full credits as a U of T Scarborough student. These must include at least one full credit drawn from each of areas I (Introduction to Social Science Thought), II (Fundamentals of City Studies), and III (Methods). Students must also successfully complete Arts & Science Co-op Work Term Preparation Activities, which include multiple networking sessions, speaker panels and industry tours along with seminars covering resumes, cover letters, job interviews and work term expectations, prior to their first work term. Students are advised that being available for work terms during fall and winter may increase the variety of work available, and this in turn requires students to take courses during at least one summer session.
CITB01H3 Canadian Cities and Planning
After reviewing the history of urban and regional planning in Canada, this course considers alternative ideologies, models of public choice, the role of the planner, the instruments of planning, tools for the analysis of planning, and planning in the context of the space economy.
Exclusion: (GGRB06H3)
Recommended Preparation: Completion of Requirement 1 of the Major Program in City Studies
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
CITB02H3 Foundations of City Studies
A review of the major characteristics and interpretations of cities, urban processes and urban change as a foundation for the Program in City Studies. Ideas from disciplines including Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Planning, Political Science and Sociology, are examined as ways of understanding cities.
Prerequisite: At least 4.0 credits, of which at least 2.0 must be in ANT, ECM, GGR, POL or SOC
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
CITC01H3 Urban Communities and Neighbourhoods Case Study: East Scarborough
This course engages students in a case study of some of the issues facing urban communities and neighbourhoods today. Students will develop both community-based and academic research skills by conducting research projects in co-operation with local residents and businesses, non-profit organizations, and government actors and agencies.
Prerequisite: CITB01H3 & CITB02H3 & permission of instructor
Exclusion: GGRC41H3 if taken in the 2008 Fall Session
Enrolment Limits: 30
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
CITC02H3 Learning in Community Service
This will be a service learning course based in Scarborough communities in which students learn about community issues first-hand by volunteering for community based organizations. Student evaluation will be based on completion of volunteer hours and grading of student journals that will: 1. Describe the service work, and 2. Reflect on the service work and relate it to lectures and required readings.
Prerequisite: CITB01H3 & CITB02H3 & permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: CITC01H3
Enrolment Limits: 30
CITC03H3 Real Estate and the City
Operation of property markets; cities as markets in land and structures; stocks of property and flows of accommodation service; location of industry, offices and retailing within the city; rental and owner-occupied housing; depreciation and maintenance; cyclical behaviour in metropolitan property markets; impacts of local government; property taxation.
Prerequisite: CITB01H3 & CITB02H3 & [ECMB01H3 or ECMB02H3]
Exclusion: (GGRB10H3)
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
CITC04H3 Municipal and Planning Law in Ontario
Constitutional authority, municipal corporations, official plans, zoning bylaws, land subdivision and consents, development control, deed restrictions and common interest developments, Ontario Municipal Board.
Prerequisite: CITB01H3, CITB02H3
Enrolment Limits: 60
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
CITC07H3 Urban Social Policy
In recent years social policy has been rediscovered as a key component of urban governance. This course examines the last half-century of evolving approaches to social policy and urban inequality, with particular emphasis on the Canadian urban experience. Major issues examined are poverty, social exclusion, labour market changes, housing, immigration and settlement.
Prerequisite: CITB01H3, CITB02H3
Enrolment Limits: 60
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
CITC08H3 Cities and Community Development
An examination of community development as the practice of citizens and community organizations to empower individuals and groups to improve the social and economic wellbeing of their communities and neighbourhoods. The course will consider different approaches to community development and critically discuss their potential for positive urban social change.
Prerequisite: CITB01H3, CITB02H3
Enrolment Limits: 60
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
CITC10H3 Selected Issues in City Studies
Examination of one or more current issues in cities. The specific issues with vary depending on the instructor.
Prerequisite: CITB01H3 & CITB02H3
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
CITC18H3 Urban Transportation Policy Analysis
Demand forecasting; methodology of policy analysis; impacts on land values, urban form and commuting; congestion; transit management; regulation and deregulation; environmental impacts and safety.
Prerequisite: University-level half-credit in data analysis & GGRB02H3 & one of CITB01H3, ECMB01H3, ECMB02H3, GGRB05H3, (GGRB06H3), (GGRB27H3), GGRC27H3
Exclusion: GGR324H, (GGRC18H3)
Enrolment Limits: 60
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
CITD01H3 City Issues and Strategies
This course is designed as a culminating City Studies course in which participants are able to showcase the application of their research skills, and share their professional and disciplinary interests in a common case study. Lectures and guests will introduce conceptual frameworks, core questions and conflicts. Students will be expected to actively participate in discussions and debates, and produce shared research resources. Each student will prepare a substantial research paper as a final project.
Prerequisite: Completion of the Major Program in City Studies requirements (1) Introduction to Social Science Thought, (3)
Fundamentals of City Studies & (4) Methods.
Enrolment Limits: 25 per section